Jack Savoretti
Birth Name: Giovanni Edgar C. Galletto Savoretti
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England
Date of Birth: 10 October, 1983
Ethnicity:
*Italian (father)
*Polish Jewish (maternal grandfather), German (maternal grandmother)
Jack Savoretti is a British acoustic singer. He is the son of Ingrid A. M. (Hepner) and Guido Galletto-Savoretti.
Jack’s paternal grandfather was Giovanni Savoretti. Giovanni was from Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
Jack’s maternal grandparents were Edgar Hepner and Charlotte R. L. Budig.
In an Italian interview, Jack stated:
My father is Italian, my mother was born in England but her parents were “German-Polish”, her father was Polish Jewish, her mother was German. At the beginning of the ’30s this relationship wasn’t “trendy” so they escaped to Paris and London, where my mother was born.
Sources: Birth record of Jack Savoretti – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Jack’s parents – https://familysearch.org
Birth record of Jack’s mother – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Jack’s maternal grandparents, Edgar Hepner and Charlotte R. L. Budig – https://familysearch.org
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Jack’s paternal grandfather was Giovanni Savoretti. He was from Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
So Jack says in the interview that his grandfather was a Polish Jew and his grandmother was a German non-Jew?
he said: “my father is Italian, my mother was born in England but his parents were “German-Polish”, her father was Polish Jewish, her mother was German. At the beginning of the 30s this relationship wasn’t “trendy” so they escaped to Paris and London, where my mother was born”
*her parents